Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-01-20
DISTRIBUTION OF REWARDS"
DR.. Talmage's Discourse Last
Sunday Morning.
He Shall Divide the Spoil With the Strong.

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| 20, could speak the matchess worth!
| o, could sound the glorlcs forth
| Which I'm my Saviour shlneT
DR.. Talmagc explained some of the prophe.
sizes before giving out the hymn aud then
preached on the subject Distribution of Re.
wards taking his text from Isaiah lii, l2:
"Hc shall divide the spoil with the strong"
DIR. Tamagc spoke as follows:
Ny family, who saw 1t with their own eyes
year before last, tell me that in the Coliseum
at Rome, where prosecutors used to let out the
| half-starved lions to cat up Christians, there
is now planted the figure OF the cross And
rejoice to know that the upright piece OF wood
| joined to the transverse piece has become the
symbol, not more OF suffering than of victory.
1t is of Christ the Conquerer that my text
| speaks. As kingly warrior hayl1g subdued
an empire, might divide the palaces, and man.
| sons, and cites, and valleys, and mountains
| among his officers, so Christ Is going to divide
| up all the earth, and all the heavens, among
his people, and you and will have to take our
| share if We are strong in faith and strong in
| our Christian loyalty, for my text Ceclares il:
| lie shall divide the spoil with the strong"
The capture of this round planet for Christ
is not so much of job as you might imagine,
| when the church takes off It's coat and rolls up
ITS sleeves for the work, 1t will There are sixteen
| hundred millions Of people now in the worli, and
| there are four hundred and fifty million
| Christians. Subtract the four hundred and
fifty millions, who are Christians, from the six
cen hundred millions, and there are eleven
hundred and fifty millions left to be Christian
.zed. Now divide the eleven hundred ard ff-
i millions by the four hundred and fifty mil
| ions already Christianzcd, aud it makes only
twenty five people for each Christian to bring
10 Christ. Surely when the church gets wide
awake no Christian will be content to take to
| heaven less than twenty five. Whr | hope TO
take with me at least ten thousand. ! know
>yungelisls that have already gathered nifty
thousand each for the Iii gdom. There are at
Icast two hundred thousand men In ChriSten-
iom whose one business It is to save SOUS
80 that when tell yOa all that we need to ay-
rag Is twent five souls rcapcd for God in Il
lifetime, all idea of mpossiDillty vanlshes
rom this OmnipOtent crusade, | know of a
'abbath-sChOOl teacher who has spent her life
inc in teaching the young, aud she has had
five dill rent classes during all these years,
md she tells me they averaged about seven in
class, and they were AL converted. and five
lines seven are thirty-tive, as near as | can
aIculatc She brought her twenty-five and
lad ten to spare. Ny grandmother brought
aer whole family into the kingdom, and her
gIdlNCulItITtn, anu, / nope, all Det great
grandchildren, for God remembers a prayer
! 'Cvcnty-iiYe years old as well as though it
we're minute: and she took her twenty-five
into the kingdom, and hal at least q hundred
to spare. Besides that, the telegraph and tel
cph0ne will, within a few Years, put the whole
earth into a compass Of ten minutes Cousid-
er this and also that Omuipotence and
Omnisc cncr, and O.miprrsence preside
over all the work of bctterment, and
you will take this enterprise of the
worlds redemption out Of the impOSs-
biluirs into the possibilities, and then out of
the possibilities into the probabilities and then
out Of the probabilities into the ccrtainles.
The building Of the Union Pacific Railroad frOn
ocean 10 ocean was greater undertaking
thauthe giTding OF the earth with the Gospel,
for the one enterprise depended upon the
human arm while the other depends upon
Almightiness.
Do really mean all the earth will surrender
to Christ! Yea. How about the uninviing
portionsl Will Greenland be evangelzcd!
The possibility Is that after few more huu-
bred brave lives are dashed out among the
iccb"g, that great refrigerator, the Polar
region, will be given up tD the walrrts and the
bear, and that the inhab tants will come down
by invitation into tUCrable climates, or those
china cs may soften. aud, rs IL has been
pOSitlYel, demonstrated that the Arctic reg on
was once Il blooming garien ard fruitful
field, those reg onS may change climate and
agan be II blooming garden and a fruitful
field. II is proved beyond controversy By
German and American scientists, that the
Arctic regions were the first portions Of this
world imhabitablc; the world hot beyO d hui
man endurance, those reg O1s were Of course
the first to be cool enough Tor human foot and
human lung. 1t is positively proved that that
Arctic region was 4 tropical climate Pro-
fcsSOr Hcer of Zurich says the remains Of
flowers have been found in the Arctic shnw-
ing it was Ike Mexico for climate, and it is
found that the Arctic Was the mOther-rcgion
from VIII ch all the flowers descended Pro
fcssOr Wallace saws the remaiEs of all STYLES
OF animal lie are found In the ArCt c, includ-
ing those animals that can live only in warm
climates. Now, that Arctic region which
has been demonstrated by fora, and fauna.
and geological argument 10 have been as
full of vegetation and life as our Florida,
may be turned back to its original bloom and
glor', or it VIII be shut up as museum Of
crystals for curiosity seekers once in n while
TO visit But Arctic and Antartic in some
shape will belong to the Rrdeemcr's realm
What about other unpruducttyc or repulsve
regions! All the deserts will b. irrigated, the
waters will be forced up 10 the great American
desert between here and the Pacific by ma
chncry now known or yet TO he invented,
and, rs Great Salt Lake CITY has no rain and
could not raise an appe or buShcl of wheat
in hundred years without artificial help, but
IS now through such means, one great garden,
all the unprOductive parts Of all the CONT
orchards.
A half dozen De Lesseps will furnish the
world with all the canals needed, and will
change the course Of rivers and open new
lakes, and the great Sahara Desert will be cut
up into farms With an astounding Yield OF
bushels to the acre. The marsh will be drain
ed Of its waters and cured of its malaria. !
saw the other day what was for many years
called the Black Swamp of Ohio its chief
| crop chills and fevers but now, By the tiles
mt int tha4 md rf,ffth a Nlrta
| moisture, transformed into the richest and
| health est Of regions. The God who wastes
| nothing, / think, means that this world, from
| pole to POLE has to come to perfection of fol
| iagc and fruitagG For that reason he keeps
us running through space, though so many
| fires are blazing down IN its timbers, and so
| many mock terrors have threatened to dash IL
| 10 pieces. As soon as the earth is completed
| Christ ill divide 1t up among the good. The
reason he does not divide it row is because it
| is not done. kind father. will not divide
the apple among his children until the
| apple is ripe. In full lment' Of the New
! Testament promise, The meek shall iu-
hert the Garth and the p,omise OF
| the Old Testament. lie shall divide the spoil
! with the strong" the world will be apportiOn-
| ed to those worthy to possess it,
| 1t is not so now. In this country, capable
| OF holding, feeding, clothing, and sheltering
| twelve hundred million people and where we
| have only sixty million Inhabitants, we have
|
,, with their faIriies an aggregation OF twenty
| millions that are on the verge Of starvation.
| Something wrong most certainly, In some
way, there will be new appOriionment Many
| OF The millionaire estates will crack TO pieces
| on the dss patton Of grandchildren, and then
| dissolve into the possession OF the masses who
| now have an insuic!cncy.
| What you say will become Of the expensive
| aud clab0rat. buildings now devoted 10 de
basug amusemcnts! They Will become schools,
| art gallaries, musuems, gymnasums, and
| churches. The world is already getting dis
| ~ustcd with many Of these amusements, and
| no wonder. What an importation OF unclean
| theatrical stuff we have within the last few
years had brought 10 our shores! And pro.
fessorS of religion patrOnizng such things
Having sold out TO the devil why don't you
deliver the goods and 20 over to him publicly
hody, mind, and soul, and withdraw YOU
name from Christian churches, and say, "KpoW
all the world by these presents that / am
patron Of uncleanlness aud child OF hell
Sworn to be the Lords, you are perjurers.
| But at last the tide has turned, and the de
splsers OF durity overdid the matter A for
| cign actress of base morals arrived intending
| t. make a tour Of the States, but the remaining
decenc of our cities rose up and cancelled thu
contracts, and drove her back frum our Ameri
can stage, a woman fit FOR neither continent ii
the name Of Almighty God take these abomi
| nat Qns bV the If ypiI think thpSi